But I guess I had never listened closely enough to the lyrics of MC5’s “Sister Anne.” The Detroit outfit’s signature song starts out like this, the best I can decode:

Sister Anne don’t give a damn about evolution

She’s a liberated woman, she’s got her solution

Like a dinosaur, she’s going off the wall

She’s gonna make it her own crusade

It raises two obvious and difficult questions. First, how much more evolution-rock is out there? Not to be too nerdy about it, but how deeply do the questions of evolution and creationism sink into the marrow of American culture? If we hear the echoes of creationism even in the skudjiest of Motor City rock anthems, is there anywhere we won’t find them?

The second question is much simpler: What the *@#% do these “Sister Anne” lyrics mean? The title character seems to be some sort of soul-saving, evolution-hating, sexy Catholic nun. I know she can…but can what?